Slender-billed Inezia

Inezia tenuirostris

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesWoodlandCup nestTiny · 5 g

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The slender-billed inezia is 9 to 9.5 cm (3.5 to 3.7 in) long and weighs 5 to 6 g (0.18 to 0.21 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a grayish olive crown. Their face is mostly whitish with a thin white supercilium and a thin white eye-ring. Their back and rump are grayish olive. Their wings are dusky with dull white edges on the inner flight feathers and tips of the wing coverts; the latter show as two wing bars. Their tail is dusky olive with thin white outer edges and tips on the feathers. Voice: The slender-billed inezia's song is "a flat, insipid trill, tleeeeeeee'e'e'e'e'e'e'e'e, thin and slightly descending or attenuated at end". It also makes a "whistled 'teer-'téér-teer-terr-teer' ".

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When to see the Slender-billed Inezia

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Slender-billed Inezia

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Slender-billed Inezia

The slender-billed inezia, or slender-billed tyrannulet, is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.

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Side by side: Pale-tipped Inezia vs Slender-billed Inezia

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